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Building a new growth team is hard. You have to figure out the macro organizational issues – how it fits in with marketing, product, and other functions – as well as the micro, like how to measure the success of these teams. It’s a...

Growing startups and evaluating startups share common skills
Earlier this year, I joined Andreessen Horowitz as a General Partner, where I focus on a broad spectrum of consumer startups: marketplaces, entertainment/media, and social platforms. This was a big moment for me, and the result of a...

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Disclaimer: Ayahuasca is illegal in America. People have died from using it. I am not a doctor nor was I ever able to do well in Chemistry class and this article is NOT an endorsement...

Do you create content? Do you often struggle to come up with ideas? If so, you’re far from alone. I recently experienced three months of creative block. Three months back-to-back during which I just couldn’t manage to come up with any new ideas. Initially, this...

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James Clear is one of the most popular bloggers in the world.
He’s a delightful bald-headed man who writes articles about habits and self-improvement on his blog JamesClear.com.
With over 1 million blog readers per month, and...

Instagram has more than 1 billion monthly active users. Even better, those users are highly engaged. Every day, they’re uploading 80 million photos and “liking” 4.5 billion posts. But that’s not all Instagram has to offer advertisers. Instagram posts are naturally intrusive, but in a...

Amazon, Jet, Walmart, and Target are four of the most successful ecommerce companies in the world today, but how they achieved that success (and maintain it) differs significantly between the brands. Amazon grew during the dot-com revolution, survived the crash, and has grown bigger and...

The consumerization and developerization of B2B
Dropbox is the fastest SaaS company to $1B in revenue run rate with 600+ million users. This is just an example showing that companies are adopting software in a completely different way in recent years – we have individual users/developers...

We all know referral marketing works. 92% of consumers trust referrals from people they know – Nielsen People are 4 times more likely to buy when referred by a friend – Nielsen Consumers rely on word-of-mouth 2-10x more than paid media. – Boston Consulting Group...